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- ("for years and
years my thought processor"); the
Shah of Iran; Gamal Abdel Nasser;
Walter Lippmann; Adlai Stevenson
("I saw [him] as two very different
men");
Evita Peron ([I was]
"exposed to her horrors in Buenos
Aires"); Imelda Marcos; Eleanor
Roosevelt
- Bird is
getting all the· good ·t ries on the
front page and I'm getting nothing but
attacked on page two?'
Th re was a fantastic ball at the
Malacai'iang Palace. Th Pr sident
danc d ith Imelda Marcos, and the
made a stri -ing couple, which r duly
- to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth of
Lyndon Baines Johnson. Beginning Thursday, August 25,
in Washington, D.C., through Friday, August 26, in San
Marcos, and ending Saturday, August 27, at the LBJ Ranch
in Stonewall, they came from all parts
- in this country is now under question,
Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, speaking at Somhwe t Texas State
University in San Marcos in September, echoed the faith in
education that was one of the hallmarks of her husband's
presidency.
"From our beginnings as a nation," she said
- and Douglass Cater, will be inaugurated as college
Presidents m the next two months. On September 23,
Hardesty will formally take over the rems of Southwest
Texas State University, LBJ's alma mater, in San Marcos,
Texas. Cater's inauguration as President
- to the
Library on his return from
the Philippin s, where he
observed the election there
as a member of the L.S.
team.
It 1sa sad thing in many ways to refl ton Ferdinand Marcos·
career. He i;eemed when he was elected in 1965 and when
Hubert Humphrey and Jack
- , his times
and his presidency at
the LBJ Ranch, at the
LBJ Library, in San
Marcos and in Washing
ton, D.C.
In its early years the Library began
serving birthday cake to its visitors
on August 27. One year it decided
to drop the practice-but quickly
- in the LBJ
Grove.
Photos courtesy of Marco Santiago, Texas State Society in Washington, D.C.
Forty years ago this month, Demo
crats were holding their national conven
tion in Atlantic City and President John
son's birthday was celebrated with an
enormous
- Marcos. to sign int law the
Higher Education Act. which opened the
- of
planning.
The president's alma mater, Southwest Texas
State
niversity in San Marcos, which had
formally requested the Johnson papers in l 962
when he was vice president, was also seriously
considered as a site. And both campuses com
peted
- man, Your friend,
having on his own r sources obtain d his
master consensus builder who really
didn'l care much about issues. But," said education. During his three years at the
Cater, ''I found that the cliche was, like San Marcos Normal, he acted
- on the road gang.
"Momma," he said, "I've tried it with
my hands. I'm ready to try it with my
head. if you' II help me.'' Rebekah
was ready. She called the president of
lhe college in San Marcos; she lined
up a loan for LBJ; she sat up nights
cramming geometry
- befriended him and helped him
on his way. Perhap the first was the
president of Southwest Texas State
Teachers College in San Marcos,
Cecil Evan·. Alvin Wirtz, the canny
Austin lawyer, gave .T hnson invalu
able advice and suppott in his early
days
